The case for Smith and Shakespeare from an ex-colleague: https://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/23160686.norwich-city-ex-villa-coach-cutler-insight-dean-smith/
There's nothing new in that interview; everything in it is well known to anybody who has bothered to read up about Dean Smith. If the EDP think it's somehow news, it just shows what a desperate state they are in.
If Josh were to be fit for Saturday I am not sure he would start anyway Would likely be given time off to recover from the experience.
It's official. The time that some of us spend on here has contributed to Norwich being named the UK's most football-mad city. The implications of trying to stay at the top don't bear thinking about ........... https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/23172593.norwich-named-uks-football-obsessed-city/
Sorry if this issue had been discussed on this forum before, but what has happened to Todd Cantwell? I thought he had some very positive performances earlier in the season, but seems to have gone to ground recently. Injured or just not considered good enough for the bench?
No actual injury has been mentioned. Instead Smith said that Todd did not feel things were right for him to play at the moment. It could be that he has been offered a new contract but not signed. With his contract up at the end of the season he is now eligible to do a deal with another club in January. That's only my guess, but I'm not sure we'll see him play for us again.
He seemed to be wearing a full leg wrap in the last training video, but was on the grass. I thought he had a niggle and would be due back next game
Since it's looking more and more like nothing will happen this week and the club seems determined to scrap it out with the fans, this is becoming a matter of getting our club back, even if this means sacrificing any hope of promotion this season. We have a Head Coach who has openly blamed the fans for his own dire performance and yet remains in position, a Director of Football who once said if we didn't like it we should go and support someone else and who has cut all links with local media because they fail to be obsequious enough, an owner who says she would only pass on control to the right buyer but has been happy to pass on control to a husband and wife team who are now effectively in charge of the club without the concurrent responsibilities of being in charge, what looks from the outside like a haemorrhaging of talented people within the club because they cannot work under the current hierarchy, fans who are important when it's time to buy season tickets and treated like dirt as soon as that is done including being told how to behave in the stadium and encouraged to grass on each other if someone breaks the rules, and the hollow, hypocritical shell of what once liked to call itself a community club.
Perhaps we'll know more when the transfer window opens in 12 day from now. I'd like him to stay, but I fear he won't.
Being a community club is not a matter of pandering to self-entitled "fans" in the Snakepit and Barclay, or on social media. It's about projects like the Nest, the Community Sports Foundation, the Mental Health initiative, inclusivity; it's about Christoph Zimmermann delivering food parcels during lockdown, etc. etc. How many of those vociferously criticising are actively involved in those projects and programmes?
I think the problem is he doesn't want t o be at City. Hasn't played fo r weeks but is not fit enough to play at the moment? Doesn't want to get hurt and ruin his chance to get away more like it.
Nor is it a matter of pandering to self-entitled careerists and swallowing their self-serving PR. By the way, do we know if Webber and Ward and Smith delivered any food parcels?
It feels like promotion is over this year. We're close enough but I cannot see where any results or meaningful form are going to come from under the current leadership. Further more, I'm not sure a record-breaking spanking in the PL next year will be good for our health either. A "consolidation" season in the Championship also feels like a risk without the riches of the PL to keep the good ship Norwich afloat. It seems like a long time ago that we had this sort of team, togetherness and ambition at the club... please log in to view this image
